MISSOULA, Mont. — Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., and Sen. Max Baucus, D-Mont., today introduced legislation that guarantees funding for improving hunter access to existing public lands. Included within the Clean Energy Jobs and Oil Spill Accountability Act is a provision supported by the Boone and Crockett Club and other hunting organizations which directs the U.S. Department of the Interior and the U.S. Department of Agriculture to work with volunteering landowners to enhance access to existing public lands for the purposes of hunting, fishing and other recreational [...]
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July 29th, 2010
RMEF Announces Conservation Grants for Minnesota
MISSOULA, Mont.–Wildlife conservation and public education projects in seven Minnesota counties have been selected to receive grants from the Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation in [...]
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Women Outpace Men as New Hunters
SPRINGFIELD, Mo.—More women than men took up hunting last year, according to new net figures from the National Sporting Goods [...]
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World Champion Elk Caller: 5 Tips for Better Hunting
MISSOULA, Mont.—For elk hunters who’d like to be better elk callers, there are few mentors more qualified today than Joel Turner, reigning and two-time champion of the Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation/Leupold World Elk Calling [...]
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RMEF Earns Highest Marks from Charity Watchdog
MISSOULA, Mont.—For the second year in a row, America’s premier charity watchdog has given its highest marks to the Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation. [...]
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RMEF Hires for the Growing Business of Stewardship
MISSOULA, Mont.—With federal forestlands choking for management, agencies strapped by budget cuts and other constraints—and with elk and other wildlife caught in the middle—the Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation (RMEF) is positioning for a new way of making habitat conservation [...]
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Idaho Conservation Projects Draw RMEF Funding
MISSOULA, Mont.—Wildlife conservation projects in seven Idaho counties have been selected to receive grants from the Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation in [...]
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New ‘Elk Chronicles’ Episodes on Outdoor Channel
MISSOULA, Mont.—Country music star Blake Shelton hunting his first elk, baseball hall-of-famer Goose Gossage stalking a monster bull and many more adventures await viewers in 13 new episodes of Elk Chronicles beginning June 29 on Outdoor [...]
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Elk Foundation Voices Support for Elk Restoration in Va.
MISSOULA, Mont.—The Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation today voiced its official support for the concept of restoring elk populations in Virginia, and praised the Virginia Department of Game and Inland Fisheries for its research and analysis of five proposed alternatives for restoring a species native to the Old Dominion [...]
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The Day 6 PlotWatcher Takes the Guessing Out of Your Hunt
For many years, trail cameras have provided hunters with information about the deer and turkey populations on the property they hunt. They’ve given hunters an idea of the numbers and age-class of the animals in the area. Now there’s a camera that can do much [...]
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Realtree Steps Up Again as NHF Day Sponsor
SPRINGFIELD, Mo.—The official “holiday” for hunters and anglers, National Hunting and Fishing Day, is working to promote America’s first best conservationists with help from perennial sponsor [...]
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Weatherby Sweepstakes
Weatherby’s new online sweepstakes offers the chance to win an African safari and three other hunts, home defense training at the world-renowned Gunsite Academy, and an assortment of rifles and [...]
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NHF Day Welcomes Sportsman Channel
SPRINGFIELD, Mo.—National Hunting and Fishing Day is proud to announce renewed sponsorship for 2010 by the only television channel with 24/7 programming for hunters, shooters and anglers—Sportsman [...]
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GunBroker.com to Launch Partnership with RMEF
MISSOULA, Mont.—The world’s largest online auction of firearms and accessories, GunBroker.com, has launched a new partnership to promote the conservation brand, mission and accomplishments of the Rocky Mountain Elk [...]
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RMEF to Fund Conservation and Education in Wisconsin
MISSOULA, Mont.—Wildlife conservation and public education projects in 17 Wisconsin counties have been selected to receive grants from the Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation in [...]
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Texas Supports RMEF Projects at Home and Abroad
MISSOULA, Mont.—Texas is a mighty big place, but its borders aren’t nearly big enough to contain its residents’ passion for wildlife, hunting and conservation. Over the past year, Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation supporters across the state have raised enough money to grant substantial funding for elk habitat initiatives nationwide, plus keep some dollars at home for important conservation education efforts in 12 Texas [...]
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Tips For Using Your Day 6 PlotWatcher Camera
Those of you who own a Day 6 PlotWatcher Video Camera know how valuable it is for helping you decide when and where you should hunt. The PlotWatcher videos daytime game activity around a potential hunting location from dawn ’til dusk during the days leading up to your hunt. When you watch the video, it’s as if you’ve sat in that location watching it for yourself. [...]
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Realtree Road Trips, Best of Season 7 DVD – Reality TV, Realtree Style
COLUMBUS, Georgia, May 25, 2010 – Now available at your local sporting goods retailer, 800-474-8733, or www.realtree.com, Realtree Road Trips, Best of Season 7 delivers nine episodes and more than three hours of high-energy bow, muzzleloader, rifle and shotgun hunts, as well as bonus [...]
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Jeff Foxworthy Becomes a Sentry for USSA
(Columbus) – Jeff Foxworthy, one of America’s leading entertainers, is the latest celebrity supporting the U.S. Sportsmen’s Alliance (USSA) Sentry Program. The USSA developed the program to build an army of volunteers from coast to coast to promote and protect America’s outdoor heritage for future generations. There is no cost to become a [...]
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USSA and Others Seek Great Lakes Wolf Delisting
(Columbus) – Today, the U.S. Sportsmen’s Alliance (USSA) and other national and state based groups filed a formal petition with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) to remove the Western Great Lakes wolves from the Endangered Species [...]
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Exhibition of North America’s Top Trophies Set for Reno
MISSOULA, Mont.—A celebration of conservation, hunting and extraordinary big game trophies is set for June 24-26, 2010, at the Grand Sierra Resort in Reno, Nev. Hosted by the Boone and Crockett Club, the event is a free public exhibition of world-class antlers, horns and mounted specimens from across North [...]
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Top 25 ‘Conservacation’ Spots for Family Getaways
MISSOULA, Mont.—First came the vacation. Then, the staycation. Now comes a newly coined concept, the [...]
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Bass Pro Shops Renews Sponsorship of NHF Day
SPRINGFIELD, Mo.—Bass Pro Shops has renewed its annual sponsorship of a special “federal holiday” created to acknowledge hunters, anglers and conservation—National Hunting and Fishing Day, set for Sat., Sept. 25, [...]
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Wyoming Conservation Projects to Receive RMEF Grants
MISSOULA, Mont.—Wildlife conservation projects in 12 Wyoming counties have been selected to receive grants from the Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation in [...]
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Smith & Wesson Renews Sponsorship of NHF Day
SPRINGFIELD, Mo.—Legendary firearms maker Smith & Wesson has renewed its major sponsorship of National Hunting and Fishing Day, the official federal commemoration of hunters, anglers and [...]
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Know the Best Place to Hunt With the Day 6 PlotWatcher Camera
Between work, family and other obligations, finding time to hunt, much less scout and manage your property is not an easy task. When you do finally get some spare time, hadn’t you rather use it hunting in a highly-productive location rather than scouting or hunting a location that you know little about? [...]
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Federal Supports Conservation in Elk Country
MISSOULA, Mont.—Hunters who shoot .300 Win. Magnum or .300 WSM can now support habitat conservation in elk country by purchasing Federal Premium [...]
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Conservation Groups Adopt Boone and Crockett Scoring
MISSOULA, Mont.—More and more prominent big game conservation groups are formally endorsing Boone and Crockett scoring as their standard system for measuring North American big game [...]
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RMEF Volunteers Impacting 1 Acre Every 6 Hours
MISSOULA, Mont.—Volunteers for the Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation are helping to enhance or conserve 1 acre of wildlife habitat for every 6 hours [...]
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Montana Conservation Projects to Receive RMEF Grants
MISSOULA, Mont.—Wildlife conservation projects in 11 Montana counties have been selected to receive grants from the Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation in [...]
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